“When you title yourself, you immediately lend yourself to all kinds of pretension”

“When all authority of every kind is put aside, denied, then you can find out for yourself.”

“There's that kind of money in the world. It aggravates you to have it, makes you miserable to spend it, and you hate yourself when it's gone. And when you hate yourself, you feel like spending money. Except there's no money left. And no hope.”

“When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.”

“IF you are not for yourself, who will be for you? If you are only for yourself, what are you? If not now, when?”

“There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.”

“Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generating that kind of energy toward yourself — if you are not capable of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of protecting yourself — it is very difficult to take care of another person.”

“When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.”

“When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?”

“Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place.”